More garbage than you could shake a stick at
I think I hit the mother lode today. I found so much junk and bags to pack it in. There was too much for me to unpack and photograph then repack, so please believe me that each bag weighed about 10-15kg (20-30lbs). The loose pieces and the stuff in the bags were comprised of the following:
10 or more green plastic 35kg fertilizer bags
15 or more clear plastic sheets folded (originally about 10 square meters (100
square feet) each)
Plastic shopping bags
Plastic food wrappers
Plastic food trays
Styrofoam
Plastic shopping bag packed with glass bottles and styrofoam
Broken blue plastic bucket
Bottles and cans
Insecticide spray can
One soccer ball
Lots of burned garbage
Aerial TV antenna (cut into sections)
Rice cooker
Most of the bags and sheeting were buried under a fair amount of topsoil, and layered around the area surrounding an old burn barrel. I packed up four of the bags I found with a bunch of the other trash. I could only carry those four bags, plus my backpack basket and the rice cooker. Halfway home, I was so exhausted from carrying the bags, I had to set half of the stuff down, go home, drop of the first load and go back for the remaining bags. I had to leave more than half of the stuff I found today in the forest. This was all from only one small area not much wider than my arm span, that is in the same larger area that I ranted about yesterday.
I don't think I can go back to the same spot tomorrow. It is too depressing. I know it will still be waiting there for me next week!
The only silver lining to this mega-dump site, is that I do get an adrenaline rush from finding and removing so much garbage at one time from my island home.
10 or more green plastic 35kg fertilizer bags
15 or more clear plastic sheets folded (originally about 10 square meters (100
square feet) each)
Plastic shopping bags
Plastic food wrappers
Plastic food trays
Styrofoam
Plastic shopping bag packed with glass bottles and styrofoam
Broken blue plastic bucket
Bottles and cans
Insecticide spray can
One soccer ball
Lots of burned garbage
Aerial TV antenna (cut into sections)
Rice cooker
Most of the bags and sheeting were buried under a fair amount of topsoil, and layered around the area surrounding an old burn barrel. I packed up four of the bags I found with a bunch of the other trash. I could only carry those four bags, plus my backpack basket and the rice cooker. Halfway home, I was so exhausted from carrying the bags, I had to set half of the stuff down, go home, drop of the first load and go back for the remaining bags. I had to leave more than half of the stuff I found today in the forest. This was all from only one small area not much wider than my arm span, that is in the same larger area that I ranted about yesterday.
I don't think I can go back to the same spot tomorrow. It is too depressing. I know it will still be waiting there for me next week!
The only silver lining to this mega-dump site, is that I do get an adrenaline rush from finding and removing so much garbage at one time from my island home.
What a mess!
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